Acknowledgements
Steve Dabecki from PMC-Sierra, who was the technical lead in charge of the SWIT sub-section of the EXACT port controller ICs.
Joshua Salvador, who as an engineering co-op executed the performance simulations for the EQM design and who helped complete the second simulation test bench.
Tom Alexander from PMC-Sierra’s Portland office, who invented (and re-invented) the EXACT protocol, architected the EXACT chip set, and drafted the initial EQM specification.